Julie Y Chu

Cosmologies of Credit

Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ethnographic study of transnational migration from rural China to the U.S. and the systems of value and exchange that emerge from this migration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780822347927
• ISBN-10: 082234792X
• Artikelnr.: 30362400

Autorenporträt

Julie Y. Chu is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Notes on Orthography and Names xiii
Introduction 1
Part I. Edgy Dispositions 23
1. To Be Emplaced: Fuzhounese Migration and the Geography of Desire 31
2. Stepping Out: Contesting the Moral Career from Peasant to Overseas
Chinese 59
Part II. Exits and Entrances 101
3. Snakeheads and Paper Trails: The Making of Exits 107
4. Bad Subjects: Human Smuggling, Legality, and the Problem of Entrance 141
Part III. Debts and Diversions 165
5. For Use in Heaven or Hell: The Circulation of the U.S. Dollar among
Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors 171
6. Partings and Returns: Gender, Kinship, and the Mediation of Renqing 217
Conclusion: When Fortune Flows 257
Notes 269
Bibliography 295
Index 321